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2. ἤθεσιν, moral feelings: see note on § 114.2. 4. ἀγάσαιτο: an epic aorist (see Blass). 5. πόλιν ἐκλιπεῖν refers to the time before the battle of Salamis when, by the advice of Themistocles, Athens was abandoned to Xerxes, and all was staked on a sea-fight: so VI. 11. See Cicero, Offic. III. 11, 48: Cyrsilum quendam, suadentem ut in urbe manerent Xerxemque reciperent, lapidibus obruerunt. Herodotus, IX. 5, tells a similar story of the stoning of a senator named Lycidas, with his wife and children, before the battle of Plataea, when Mardonius sent his second message to Athens (for the earlier message see note on § 202.4). 6. ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ...ποιῆσαι: ὑπὲρ with the gen. of the infin. for a final clause, as in § 205.9, and in Aesch. III. 1, ὑπὲρ τοῦ...μὴ γίγνεσθαι. 8. τὸν ὑπακούειν ἀποφηνάμενον, who declared himself for obedience: cf. γνώμην ἀποφαίνεται, § 189.4. 10. καταλιθώσαντες: acc. to Bl., the only Attic example of καταλιθόω for καταλεύω. 11. αἱ γυναῖκες...αὐτοῦ: the vivid- ness of the picture in the easy flowing narrative is heightened by the irregular insertion of a new subject, αἱ γυναῖκες, as if without premeditation. With this and § 205 compare the speech of the Athenian envoy at Sparta more than a century earlier, Thuc. I. 73—75.
Demosthenes de Corona. William Watson Goodwin. 1904. Cambridge University Press.
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